Autonomy, Relatedness, Competence
The three conditions that determine whether your best people stay or shrink. A research-grounded keynote with a three-question diagnostic any working leader can use on Monday morning.
On strength, systems, and staying whole
Justin Ryan Carver writes and speaks about why some leaders and organizations make people more, while others make them less — and what determines the difference.
The Catalog
Why some leaders and organizations make people more, while others make them less. Three angles on the same intellectual question — the framework, the case study, and the practice.
Autonomy, Relatedness, Competence
A synthesis of five decades of motivation and trust research into a single diagnostic system built around three questions any leader can ask about any person they lead.
Read more The Case StudyA Workplace Comedy About Impossible Tasks
A sharp, funny, uncomfortably accurate novel about the mythology of the modern workplace — and a serious diagnosis of why good organizations break good people.
Read more The Practice30 Maxims of a Balanced Life
Thirty short meditations on how a person stays whole when the systems around them do not cooperate — a quiet companion for the reader who already knows the loudest voice is rarely the wisest.
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New to the catalog? Start with Sisyphus.gov to feel the problem,
The Lost ARC for the framework, or Quiet Strength for personal grounding.
What He Speaks About
The three conditions that determine whether your best people stay or shrink. A research-grounded keynote with a three-question diagnostic any working leader can use on Monday morning.
Why organizations are saved by the people no one thanks. How to find, protect, and multiply the quiet competents before they walk out the door.
How leaders fool themselves about progress. The dashboards that stay green on the outside while bleeding red on the inside — and what to do about it.
Leading when the systems above you contradict themselves. Thirty maxims and a practical discipline for the mid-level leader caught between conflicting mandates.
An unusual combination
Most people who speak about leadership have one or two of the following credentials. Justin has all four — and they are the source, not the ornament, of what he has to say.
From the work
“Leadership is the sustained practice of creating conditions in which other people's identities form rather than fragment.”
— The Lost ARC
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